Prosecutors Conduct Search and Seizure at Police Headquarters Over 'Directed Investigation Allegations'
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[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] The prosecution investigating allegations of a Blue House-directed investigation is conducting a search and seizure at the National Police Agency headquarters on the 16th.
The Public Investigation Division 2 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Tae-eun) sent prosecutors and investigators to the Information and Communications Office of the National Police Agency in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the same day to carry out the search and seizure. It is reported that the search and seizure aimed to secure internal documents and computer hard disks related to reports of misconduct surrounding former Ulsan Mayor Kim Gi-hyeon. The prosecution is reportedly examining the process by which the National Police Agency, at the end of 2017, passed on intelligence related to former Mayor Kim received from the Blue House to the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency.
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The intelligence related to former Mayor Kim was received by the Blue House's Office of the Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs in October 2017. It then passed through the Anti-Corruption Secretary's Office and the National Police Agency's Special Investigation Division before being received by the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency in December of the same year. The prosecution conducted a search and seizure on the Intelligent Crime Investigation Unit of the Ulsan Police Department, which received the intelligence and conducted investigations, on the 24th of last month. During this process, it is said that records of reports and instructions exchanged between the Ulsan Police Department and the National Police Agency headquarters were secured. The prosecution is also known to have remotely accessed the server of the Integrated Computer Center within the National Police Agency at that time to obtain related materials.
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